NiP made it past Virtus.pro in the semi-final of DreamHack Summer 2013 with a 2-0 score (16-6 on de_mirage_ce, 16-9 on de_dust2_se) and despite their earlier struggles they will be the clear favorites to take first place when they meet Epsilon.

Virtus.pro opened up the semi-final with a pistol round win on the terrorist side of de_mirage_ce, but the Ninjas went for their usual third round buy with FAMASes and were quickly able to tie the game at two apiece.

Virtus' revenge buy didn't pan out, and they found themselves trailing 2-6 before winning their next round. Virtus were able to win two in a row, but the Ninjas then claimed back the momentum and went on a winning streak of their own.

f0rest was once again instrumental to NiP's success

NiP changed sides with a comfortable 10-5 lead, and quickly won the second half pistol round thanks to two kills from both Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg and Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund in the A site.

The CIS-based squad were only able to clinch one more round, an early force buy, before NiP put them out of their misery with a commanding 16-6 win to move onto the second map of the semi-final with the help of Alesund's one-on-three heroics on the final round.

Adam "friberg" Friberg opened up de_dust2_se with three Glock kills on the pistol round that allowed NiP to go up 3-0. Strong awping from Sergey "Fox" Stolyarov and a three frag A retake from his brother Mihail "Dosia" helped even up the score at three. Two kills from Emil "kucher" Akhundov finished the Swedes on the eighth round, but time ran out and the bomb exploded.

NiP rode the momentum for a good six more rounds to make it 10-3 before Virtus could respond, and were also able to win the final round of the half for a strong 11-4 opening half lead as terrorists on de_dust2_se.

Virtus attempted to come back in the second half but a ninja-ish defuse from Lindberg and a one-on-two clutch from Alesund allowed NiP to ultimately win the map 16-9, and the series 2-0.

DreamHack Summer 2013Best of 2 Virtus.proMatchpage 0 2 17th June 2013 Ninjas in Pyjamas 6Mirage_ce 16 9Dust2_se 16

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundGeT_RiGhT	42 - 24	+18	-	1.36
Richard 'Xizt' LandströmXizt	39 - 32	+7	-	1.16
Adam 'friberg' Fribergfriberg	34 - 29	+5	-	1.14
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindbergf0rest	36 - 29	+7	-	1.10
Robin 'Fifflaren' JohanssonFifflaren	28 - 30	-2	-	0.88

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Mihail 'Dosia' StolyarovDosia	36 - 32	+4	-	1.14
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsGuardiaN	33 - 33	0	-	1.01
Sergey 'Fox' StolyarovFox	27 - 37	-10	-	0.79
Emil 'kUcheR' AkhundovkUcheR	28 - 38	-10	-	0.78
Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowANGE1	20 - 39	-19	-	0.61

The grand final between NiP and Epsilon will be played on stage in DreamArena Extreme and will be a repeat of their match last night from the Swedish Championship.